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DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee is a professional comic book artist (when he feels like it), so he understands something about comic books that all you readers complaining about the recent Harley Quinn Suicide Contest Controversy don't: that there is a greater context that should be taken into account when judging a single panel in a comic book. You see, the panel artists were asked to draw featuring Harley Quinn naked in a bathtub committing suicide to win a gig on the upcoming Harley Quinn series from DC wasn't about suicide or sexualizing female characters or sexualizing female characters committing suicide. Fans only overreacted because they didn't take this overall context into account. Thankfully, Lee is happy to explain it to you on Twitter:

Good afternoon all-hope the weekend is treating you well. Been drawing Superman Unchained but taking a much needed coffee brk.

Yes, especially when the script for that page about a sensitive and controversial subject is posted in a contest entry with absolutely no context given. You should have inferred that DC meant something else, people.

Which is why one might not chose that page, alone, for a public contest a week before World Suicide Prevention Day, particularly when that company has suffered from foot-in-mouth disease over similar stuff, like, a gazillion times in recent memory. But again... this is your failing as a reader, somehow.

ESPECIALLY when that sneak peek is just descriptions of the panels to be drawn without benefit of narration, captions or dialogue.

And it's certainly not DC's fault if the readers chose to see the worst one. Why should DC's marketing department think about those kinds of things before publishing a contest. There's hologram covers to be made!

Firstly, Twitter is the LAST FREAKING PLACE to be making a statement that takes paragraphs to explain.

Secondly, it doesn't TAKE paragraphs to explain.

Third, I saw the sample script, and it struck me as being a dream sequence. I guess I can see what some people would miss that, and focus solely on the scene of Harley nekkid in the shower, but really...who really thought they were going to make Quinn grow gigantic and floss with a building's signal tower?

So, I started to read that before I realized it was War and Peace without any of the wit and humor. I'm going to guess that we're all stupid for not understanding DC's deep double secret plan and not realizing that this wasn't all about DC not sticking its foot up its mouth this time, but up a somewhat lower orifice?

Achilles is the kind of evil that hollows out a volcano for a lair, and sends killer robots after his enemies.---Lord Simian

Dear Jim Lee - We appreciate your taking time from your busy schedule to educate us on how we - your fans - were wrong. We agree to surrender our critical faculties and allow DC Editorial and Management to do the thinking for us. #gofugyourself